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<blockquote data-quote="Mesh Hong" data-source="post: 5336150" data-attributes="member: 73463"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">Here are a couple of quick ideas:</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">A mad prophet walking around town occasionally stopping to pronounce tiding of doom. He talks of things like; the ill wind from the north, the wintery breath of the Raven Queen seeking out sinners, agents of heathen religions paralysing people by enticing them to look into their cold dead eyes, a coming apocalyptic blizzard that will drown the city in a shroud of snow, etc. This prophet is rather well known and pitied amongst the local folk so they pay him little attention. However if the PCs stopped to listen he might crave further attention and start following them round…. Hilarity ensues.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">A new play at the grand theatre is to hold the opening night of its new play very soon. The play is called “the court in winter” and features the talent of a mysterious new principal actor called Richard Patchinson. Richard is a handsome but frail looking young man with delicate pale features, strangely his few brief appearances around town have all been at night but the ladies seem to find him irresistible and gaggle about him. This has already caused a minor scandal which is something the theatres owners have been quick to exploit to advertise the play. If the PCs go to the opening night they will have to endure a dull and thinly veiled satire on the current royal family portrayed as distant from the people and dragging the empire into decline through their uncaring, cold attitudes and beliefs. Even though it will be critically panned and dubbed as boarder-line treason the play is destined for a reasonably successful run due to the strange charisma and cult of personality surrounding Richard Patchinson.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mesh Hong, post: 5336150, member: 73463"] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]Here are a couple of quick ideas:[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]A mad prophet walking around town occasionally stopping to pronounce tiding of doom. He talks of things like; the ill wind from the north, the wintery breath of the Raven Queen seeking out sinners, agents of heathen religions paralysing people by enticing them to look into their cold dead eyes, a coming apocalyptic blizzard that will drown the city in a shroud of snow, etc. This prophet is rather well known and pitied amongst the local folk so they pay him little attention. However if the PCs stopped to listen he might crave further attention and start following them round…. Hilarity ensues.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]A new play at the grand theatre is to hold the opening night of its new play very soon. The play is called “the court in winter” and features the talent of a mysterious new principal actor called Richard Patchinson. Richard is a handsome but frail looking young man with delicate pale features, strangely his few brief appearances around town have all been at night but the ladies seem to find him irresistible and gaggle about him. This has already caused a minor scandal which is something the theatres owners have been quick to exploit to advertise the play. If the PCs go to the opening night they will have to endure a dull and thinly veiled satire on the current royal family portrayed as distant from the people and dragging the empire into decline through their uncaring, cold attitudes and beliefs. Even though it will be critically panned and dubbed as boarder-line treason the play is destined for a reasonably successful run due to the strange charisma and cult of personality surrounding Richard Patchinson.[/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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